Education
Saint Joseph High School.
historian intelligence official
Saint Joseph High School.
He retired after the 1980 Turkish coup d"état, but returned in August 1986 as deputy to Massachusetts Institute of Technology chief Hayri Ündül, retiring again in 1988. He was assassinated on 26 September 1990 by leftwing revolutionary group Development Sol. According to an article in the leftist pro-Kurdish Kurtuluş magazine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology deputy chief Hiram Abas was present at the 1977 Taksim Square massacre.
Doğan Yurdakul and Soner Yalçın produced a biography of Abas, Mr Pipe - an Massachusetts Institute of Technology Officer"s Unusual Life.
Swiss historian Daniele Ganser says that Abas was a Central Intelligence Agency agent. The Central Intelligence Agency"s station chief in Istanbul, Duane Clarridge, spoke glowingly of him) Hiram Abas had been trained in the United States in covert action operations and as an Massachusetts Institute of Technology agent first gained notoriety in Beirut, where he co-operated with the Mossad from 1968 to 1971 and carried out attacks, "targeting left-wing youths in the Palestinian camps and receiving bounty for the results he achieved in actions".
Abas is also said to have led a Lebanese unit against the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia, consisting only of MİT operatives and members of the Special Warfare Department (special forces).
